Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Portland

Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
Intersection InterventionA Clarence Eckerson StreetfilmRunning time: 3 minutes 56 seconds As people living in the neighborhoods around Downtown Brooklyn are learning the hard way, New York City government’s installation of pedestrian safety and traffic calming measures is remarkably slow and expensive. Even as children are dying while crossing the street in potentially preventable crashes, and […]

Streetfilms: On-Street Bicycle Parking, Portland

By Aaron Naparstek | | 9 Comments
Following the news about the new sidewalk extensions and bike racks being installed in place of car parking space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Clarence Eckerson of Streetfilms sends along this short video looking at on-street bicycle parking in Portland, Oregon, that cyclists’ Shangri-La. As Greg Raisman from Portland DOT says, "After we put it in, it […]

Streetfilms Portland Week: The High-Tech Bike Signal

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Portland’s Innovative Bike SignalA Clarence Eckerson StreetfilmRunning time: 1:37Download: 5.91 MB Portland’s Office of Transportation goes the extra mile to accommodate cyclists. Rex Burkholder, a local elected official and the founder of the the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, shows off a high-tech, creatively engineered traffic signal for cyclists. Whenever a cyclist rolls atop a painted icon on […]
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